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Coronavirus and Sustainability:

How COVID-19 has impacted corporate and city sustainability efforts | Fortune
Fortune
Back then, executives were just beginning to understand the severity of the coronavirus, so most of her retail giant's priorities were centered on ...

Climate crisis is greatest global risk in 2022: World Economic Forum | TheHill
The Hill
Equilibrium/Sustainability ... The WEF report closes by reflecting on year two of the coronavirus pandemic, drawing on the knowledge of the ...
    
2022 Food safety trends: Learning to live with COVID
Food Safety News
Sustainability. Knock Knock. Who's there? Dinner As coronavirus variants continue to curb dining at restaurants and elevate uncertainty in the sector, ...

Sector Based Decarbonization:

To decarbonize heavy industry, we must focus on industrial clusters - The World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum
Energy consumption and production contribute to two-thirds of global emissions, and 81% of the global energy system is still based on fossil fuels, ...

Decarbonising the iron and steel sector for a 2 °C target using inherent waste streams - Nature
Nature
In a pathway based on energy recovery and resource recycling of glassy blast furnace slag and crystalline steel slag, we show that a reduction of 28.5 ...

Taking on decarbonization in the ag sector: ORNL summit highlights focus areas - EurekAlert!
EurekAlert!
... of the technology-based solutions that ORNL summit participants identified recently as key to decarbonizing the agriculture sector. view more.

Global Reporting Initiative:

Designing Your Company's Sustainability Report - Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review
Sustainability reporting standards · CDP – Carbon Disclosure Project · CDSB – Climate Disclosure Standards Board · GRI – Global Reporting Initiative ...

GRI and Support the Goals report on progress of SDGs - CMW
c-mw.net
The publication State of Progress: Business Contributions to the SDGs, produced by Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Support the Goals, ...

The Crucial ESG Topics to Focus On Right Now - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

USDA Launches Pilot Program to Deploy Renewable Energy Infrastructure to People in Rural Towns
USDA
The new program we're announcing today will pilot the viability of community-scale renewable energy investments to mitigate the energy-burdened ...

Indian Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries To Invest $80 Billion In Renewable ...
Forbes
In June, it said it planned to invest $10 billion in renewable energy. To help make Gujarat net-zero carbon, Reliance proposes to invest five trillion ...

India's Wealthiest Coal Tycoon Plans to Invest $80 Billion in Green Energy - Global Citizen
Global Citizen
The Indian company Reliance Industries, founded by Mukesh Ambani's father, plans to invest $80 billion in renewable energy.

CDP Sustainability:

CDP: Corporates more than twice as likely to disclose environmental impact if asked by investors
Edie
CDP has published the results of a campaign whereby 168 investors pushed companies to disclose more environmental information, revealing success ...

As Fink's CEO Letter Calls For TCFD Disclosure, CDP Enables Investor Pressure For ... - Forbes
Forbes
The campaign allows investors to directly engage companies who have previously failed to disclose their environmental impact through CDP, and ...

Air Liquide Recognized by the CDP as One of the Best-Performing Companies in ... - Business Wire
Business Wire
As a leader in environmental stewardship, Air Liquide is implementing actions and policies aligned with its sustainability objectives announced March ...

California's Leadership in Climate Change:

California is no longer climate change leader, says assembly speaker - KCRW
KCRW
California is losing its leadership position in the effort to mitigate climate change, and politics and other disasters may be to blame, ...

Some States Are Taking Action Against Climate Change, But Does It Matter? | Best States | US News
USNews.com
“There absolutely needs to be federal leadership on national and international goals and commitments,” says Ben Grumbles, Maryland's environment ...

California ballot proposal would raise billions for electric cars, charging stations - Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley
While the state has been a global leader in addressing climate change, proponents say that leadership position is slipping away while air quality ...

Impact Investing:

The Week in Impact Investing: Bridges - ImpactAlpha
ImpactAlpha
TGIF, Agents of Impact! The dialectics of impact. Bursting the bubbles that often float around ESG and impact investing is an easy and not ...

The Dubious Financial Impact of Impact Investing - Articles - Advisor Perspectives
Advisor Perspectives
Impact investments are made to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. The growing impact ...

Risk, Return, Redemption: A Different Kind Of Impact Investing - Forbes
Forbes
Sr. Rosemary Nyirumbe and the Saint Monica's Vocational School in Gulu, Uganda have been the gateway to a better life for 2000 girls and their ...

Energy Storage

Batteries get hyped, but pumped hydro provides the vast majority of long-term energy ...
The Conversation
A team of researchers found 35000 pairs of existing reservoirs, lakes and old mines in the US that could be turned into long-term energy storage ...

Technology breakthroughs 2022: Energy storage - GIS Reports
GIS Reports
More than renewable power generation, it is energy storage technologies that could accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels.

Global Battery Energy Storage Systems Market to Reach US$12.9 Billion by the Year 2026
Yahoo Finance
Battery energy storage systems (BESS) store electricity produced by power plants, particularly renewable power units. New York, Jan. 18, 2022 (GLOBE ...

Science Based Carbon Performance Targets:

Science Based Targets Initiative Sets 2022 Action Plan | Latham & Watkins LLP - JDSupra
JD Supra
The SBTi is a partnership between the CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project), the UN Global Compact, the World Resources Institute, and the ...

Statement re SBTi approval for carbon reduction targets - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
Smurfit Kappa Group plc ('Smurfit Kappa' or 'the Group') has had its emissions reduction targets approved by the Science Based Targets initiative ( ...

Ontex Sets Science-Based Targets for Climate Action | Business Wire
Business Wire
Ontex commits to achieving carbon-neutral operations by 2030. The company will reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions (also called scope 1 & 2 ...

Climate Change Winners and Losers:

Legislature shouldn't choose winners and losers during a climate crisis | Opinion
tallahassee.com
This is a climate change parable. We are in the midst of a climate crisis where every industry, business, and individual need to cut carbon ...

Some winners and losers of Hochul's state budget proposal - Spectrum News
Spectrum News
Local governments view the spending plan as a sea change in how business gets done in Albany. “After a decade of state versus local, ...

The winners and losers of the world's largest trade deal: the RCEP - Investment Monitor
Investment Monitor
From a 'Western' perspective, the deal also falls short on ensuring climate change commitments and labour rights protection, says Yu.

Microgrids:

Resilience is what makes microgrids attractive as back-up energy controls | Building Design ...
Building Design + Construction
As these entities, along with municipalities and cities, prioritize building resilience, microgrid solutions are gaining traction. At their core, ...

DoE lab partners with XENDEE on net-zero carbon microgrids - Smart Energy International
Smart Energy International
INL partnered with XENDEE Corporation to develop a platform that can be used in the development of net-zero microgrids.

Why fixing the electric grid is not enough - Microgrid Knowledge
Microgrid Knowledge
Fixing the grid, alone, will not ensure electric reliability, as explained in this excerpt from a report by Microgrid Knowledge and Think ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

An ESG Trailblazer Talks About Making Investing Moral, Greenwashing, and Sustainability ...
Morningstar
The founder of Domini Impact Investments, Amy Domini is a widely recognized trailblazer of sustainable investing (which she still calls by its ...

What is ESG investing? Here's how to invest ethically : Life Kit - NPR
NPR
MIGAKI: That is financial planner and consultant Manisha Thakor. She says ethical investing is a lot more complicated than just declaring your cause ...

10 ESG Dividend Stocks to Buy - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
ESG is the acronym for Environmental, Social, and (Corporate) Governance. These terms represent three categories of interest to investors who want to ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage:

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Market to Reach $7.0 Bn, Globally, by ...
PR Newswire
PRNewswire/ -- Allied Market Research published a report, titled, "Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Market by Service (Capture, ...

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS): barriers, enabling frameworks and ...
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) involves the trapping of man-made CO2 underground to avoid its release into the atmosphere.

Western Canada Leads The Way With Carbon Capture Utilization & Storage - Mondaq
Mondaq
Carbon capture utilization and storage ("CCUS") is an important strategy as Canada moves to decarbonize the economy.

Sustainability Investing: 

Sustainable investing is mostly marketing and PR: Former BlackRock exec - YouTube
YouTube
Tariq Fancy, former Blackrock CIO, joins 'Power Lunch' to discuss Larry Fink's recent comments and how sustainable investing has unfolded in ...

An ESG Trailblazer Talks About Making Investing Moral, Greenwashing, and Sustainability ...
Morningstar
The founder of Domini Impact Investments, Amy Domini is a widely recognized trailblazer of sustainable investing (which she still calls by its ...

Sustainable Investing Is About Profits, Not Taking a Stand | Morningstar
Morningstar
With BlackRock now managing roughly $10 trillion on behalf of investors around the world, Fink's advocacy of sustainable investing has had broad ...

Geoengineering:

Scholars Float Political Intervention Against Solar Geoengineering - The Wire Science
The Wire Science
Solar geoengineering – a set of hypothetical technologies to reduce incoming sunlight on Earth – is gaining prominence in debates on climate ...

Solar geoengineering: Over 60 experts call upon UN, governments to sign non-use agreement
Scroll.in
Solar geoengineering, also known as solar radiation management or modification, is a set of technologies to lower global temperatures by ...

After sun-dimming setback, geoengineers seek a diplomatic fix | The Japan Times
The Japan Times
One aim is to have solar geoengineering discussed for the first time by the U.N. General Assembly in a session starting in September 2023.

Green Bond Funds:

Denmark's Hefty Green Bond Premium Is Expected to Grow on Fund Demand - Bloomberg.com
Bloomberg.com
Denmark's debut in the green bond market made a hot start after a surge in bids led it to slash its borrowing costs versus conventional debt, ...

Green Debt Market Faces a Rare Default - Bloomberg
Bloomberg.com
Queensland-based Energy Storage Pty Ltd failed to send funds to an issuing entity owned by London-based bond originator Bedford Row Capital when ...

Denmark to Discover Its 'Greenium' With First Green Bond Sale - Bloomberg
Bloomberg.com
Denmark is introducing the green bond to fund projects to meet one of the world's most ambitious climate targets, with a goal to cut carbon ...

Low Carbon Funds:

Fund home insulation and heat pumps for people on low incomes, PM urged - The Guardian
The Guardian
... to the home insulation vital to ending fuel poverty, and called instead for ECO and other levies that fund renewable and low-carbon energy, ...

Exxon pledges net-zero carbon emissions from operations by 2050 - CNBC
CNBC
The oil major's shareholders last year tossed out three Exxon directors and replaced them with candidates proposed by a hedge fund pressing the ...

Low correlation between ESG in fund titles and their rating, says study | Pensions & Investments
Pensions & Investments
"If somebody says something is low-carbon, it should mean the same thing for everybody, and the SEC should enforce it." An SEC spokeswoman declined to ...